List of 100 Thanksgiving Quotes:
#1 Katrina Mayer
“Thanksgiving isn’t just a day. It’s a way we can live our lives every day.”
#2 Ann Voskamp
“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
#3 Jennifer Lopez
“I’m grateful for everything I have. I’m grateful for it all. I’m grateful for love most of all because I have a lot of it in my life.”
#4 P.J. O’Rourke
“Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.”
#5 James E. Faust
“The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.”
#6 Jon Pardi
“I’m just thankful I’m surrounded by good people.”
#7 Henry David Thoreau
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
#8 Andy Borowitz
“For those of you who cannot be with family this Thanksgiving, please resist the urge to brag.”
#9 Jacob Tremblay
“I do think that Thanksgiving is a very nice holiday because it’s all about saying thank you; it’s being thankful.”
#10 W. Clement Stone
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
#11 W.T. Purkiser
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.”
#12 Napoleon Hill
“If you attain fame and fortune, and do not attain gratitude along with it, the chances are that you will not enjoy that fame or that fortune.”
#13 Robert Caspar Lintner
“Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.”
#14 Mother Teresa
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
#15 Oscar Wilde
“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
#16 Steve Maraboli
“Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine and spiritual and emotional nourishment.”
#17 Dalai Lama
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
#18 Remi
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”
#19 Voltaire
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
#20 Oprah Winfrey
“True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for that experience.'”
#21 Ralph H. Blum
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
#22 Tony Watson
“Thanksgiving: giving Him thanks for what He has done and how He has revealed Himself to you.”
#23 John Milton
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life.”
#24 Maya Angelou
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“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.”
#25 Chief Tecumseh
“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.”
#26 Deepak Chopra
“Gratitude opens the door to the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.”
#27 William Wordsworth
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
#28 Amy Leigh Mercree
“Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.”
#29 Meister Eckhart
“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is ‘thank you’ that would suffice.”
#30 W.J. Cameron
“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.”
#31 Marcel Proust
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
#32 Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
#33 Lionel Hampton
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
#34 E.P. Powell
“Thanksgiving day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.”
#35 Ina Garten
“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”
#36 Amy Collette
“Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.”
#37 Frederick Keonig
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
#38 H.A. Ironside
“We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.”
#39 William Arthur Ward
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
#40 Richard Carlson
“People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.”
#41 Thomas Merton
“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything.”
#42 Danielle Duckery
“Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.”
#43 Arianna Huffington
“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
#44 Craig Ferguson
“There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.”
#45 Frank W. Clarke
“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.”
#46 Sam Lefkowitz
“When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.”
#47 Tony Snow
“If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.”
#48 Victor Hugo
“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
#49 Alphonse Karr
“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.”
#50 Howie Mandel
“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.”
#51 Albert Einstein
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
#52 William Jennings Bryan
“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.”
#53 Conan O’Brien
“If you start drinking now, Thanksgiving could be a lot of fun.”
#54 Amy Grant
“Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”
#55 Jefferson Bethke
“Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.”
#56 Willard Scott
“Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.”
#57 Wilbur D. Nesbit
“Forever on Thanksgiving, the heart will find the pathway home.”
#58 Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
#59 Yogi Bhajan
“An attitude of gratitude brings great things.”
#60 C.S. Lewis
“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
#61 Craig Ferguson
“I like football. I find it’s an exciting strategic game. It’s a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.”
#62 John Lyon
“I love spending Thanksgiving surrounded by all these great friends I met in the Best Buy parking lot.”
#63 Catherine Pulsifer
“Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.”
#64 W.T. Purkiser
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.”
#65 Wilbur D. Nesbit
“Forever on Thanksgiving Day, the heart will find the pathway home.”
#66 Sarah Michelle Gellar
“I try very hard to be grateful and appreciative all year, but it doesn’t hurt to have one dedicated day.”
#67 “FRIENDS” —Joey Tribbiani
“You can’t have Thanksgiving without turkey. That’s like the Fourth of July without apple pie or Friday with no two pizzas.”
#68 Gertrude Stein
“Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.”
#69 Gloria Fallon
“Every Thanksgiving I bring the champagne, because in my family we all know what our strengths are.”
#70 Israelmore Ayivor
“To become a better you, remember to be grateful to people who have contributed to making you who you are today.”
#71 Mindy Kaling
“Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion.”
#72 Rick Riordan
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.”
#73 John Clayton
“Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.”
#74 Mandy Ingber
“Have gratitude for all that you have, and you can be happy exactly as you are.”
#75 Erma Bombeck
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
#76 Lorelai Gilmore
“It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour.”
#77 Roy T. Bennett
“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”
#78 Melody Beattie
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.”
#79 Charlie Brown
“What if today, we were just grateful for everything?”
#80 Nigel Hamilton
“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
#81 Wylie Dufresne
“I’ve always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.”
#82 Skip Prosser
“Never delay gratitude.”
#83 Charles M. Schulz
“We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving.”
#84 Michael Bassey Johnson
“Show gratitude when you win. Be hopeful when you lose. In everything, give thanks.”
#85 Rachael Newham
“If we empty our celebrations of thanksgiving, we are left with a party with no heart.”
#86 Santosh Kumar
“Thank God, new day, new evening, cool air, drizzling, black coffee, me, you, and the ultimate love.”
#87 Stephanie, St. Jude patient Aspen’s mom
“There’s so much kindness in the world. It’s inspiring in a way that it challenges us, the recipients of this kindness, to give back.”
#88 Theodore Roosevelt
“Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.”
#89 Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Wealth without thankfulness is nothing more than well-heeled squalor.”
#90 Damien Fahey
“I’m looking forward to seeing pie this Thanksgiving more than members of my own family.”
#91 H. U. Westermayer
“The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”
#92 Craig D. Lounsbrough
“To refuse to be thankful is to incessantly focus on the few things that I don’t have at the expense of the many things that I do.”
#93 Invajy
“Start every morning with deliberate thinking and thanksgiving to god for that you are alive. Every day is a Thanksgiving Day !!!”
#94 Lailah Gifty Akita
“Thanksgiving is my sacred thoughts.”
#95 Amy Leigh Mercree
“Giving thanks fills you with light and joy so you can shine like the bright star you truly are.”
#96 Richie Norton
“Express gratitude for the greatness of small things.”
#97 Alexandra Katehakis
“Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.”
#98 Warren Wiersbe
“The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reasons for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.”
#99 Joanna Gaines
“It’s up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now — and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we’ll be happy.”
#100 Eckhart Tolle
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
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